Entry level stunner
This set-up is a remarkable and hard-to-believe home cinema bargain
TV TCL 50C6KS £349
THE SYSTEM
■TV
TCL 50C6KS £349
■Soundbar package
Hisense AX5125H £199
TOTAL £548
SOUNDBAR PACKAGE Hisense AX5125H £199
Image: ONE PIECE: Courtesy of Netflix
It’s easy, when looking for a bargain set-up, be it home cinema or hi-fi, to get a little too distracted with driving the price down, rather than looking at the quality you might be getting. If it’s cheap, after all, there must be some leeway for a few performance foibles, surely?
Often, of course, that simply has to be the case. But not always. With this pairing, we are confident that, as well as spending a remarkably little amount of money for what you get, you are also getting almost unreasonable performance for your pound.
Fifty-inch televisions may be par for the course nowadays, but for most living rooms it’s a size that is plenty big enough to bring a cinematic sense of scale.
And the 50in TV we have for you here is, quite simply, a revelation. For years, the premium panel technologies – Mini LED and OLED – remained firmly in the territory of flagship pricing. TCL has shattered that barrier with the 50C6KS. It’s a 50in slice of visual excellence that makes you question how much money you need to spend to get a truly bright, punchy, and detailed picture.